News - October 2015

Patton Graff (32), right, running back for Thompson Valley runs for a first down in the first half against Greeley West on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 in Loveland. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Isabela, 2, (foreground) and Sabrina, 3, wait while their brother, Alex, 5, gets a slice of pepperoni pizza at the Little Caesars Pizza Love Kitchen in front of the Community Kitchen on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. Their mother, Joyce Maggi, brought her four children to the kitchen for dinner that day. The family was pleasantly surprised to have pizza for dinner. (Photo by Jessica Benes)

Priscilla Sandoval, 14, and Maddy Thomas, 14, hand out slices of pizza to Joyce Maggi and her family from a Little Caesars Love Kitchen in front of the Community Kitchen on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. Priscilla and Maddy are grandchildren of Jeff and Cathy Soehnlein, who own the Little Caesars franchise in Loveland. (Photo by Jessica Benes)

Colin O'Connor,9, attempts to rope a pretend steer at the Kings Revenue Ranch on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, west of Loveland. His brother, Jack, 7, and another visitor to the ranch, Brooke Mowry, 7, look on. The Ranch is offering ghost ranch tours and activities next weekend during Halloween. (Photo by Jessica Benes)

From left, Jack O'Connor, 7; Brooke Mowry, 7; Colin O'Connor, 9; and Lucy O'Connor, 7, pet horses at the Kings Revenue Ranch on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, west of Loveland. The Ranch was open for the day to "ghost tours" of the history and animals, and will be open again this weekend during Halloween. (Photo by Jessica Benes)

Chris O'Connor of Loveland playfully trusses up his daughter, Lucy O'Connor, 7, while practicing roping steers at the Kings Revenue Ranch on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, while his older son, Colin, 9, laughs as he watches. O'Connor "roped" his daughter, pulled her in and then jokingly tied her up. (Photo by Jessica Benes)

Carrie Martin Elementary School students Adam Overway, 9, right, and Bodie Weiss, 9, far right, react as water is released from the dam of the river simulation and miniature homes are flooded Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, outside Big Thompson Elementary School. Every fourth-grader in the Thompson School District gets to learn about erosion, deposotion and more at the river simulation that was built with a $55,000 grant from the Pulliam Foundation. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Carrie Martin Elementary School students marked parts of the river simulation with signs as they learned about rivers Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, outside Big Thompson Elementary School. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Bernie Kendall, left, leads a lesson about rivers for Carrie Martin Elementary School students at the flume, also known as the river simulation Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, outside Big Thompson Elementary School. Kendall designed a river simulation that this one was patterned from. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

The builders of two new solar farms in Weld County erected a "mock" row of panels, shown in this photo from Oct. 14, 2015, at the Skylark Solar Facility east of Fort Collins. (Photo by Amy Blunck/Special to the Reporter-Herald)

Carrie Martin Elementary School student Emi Motis, 9, shows off some of the fossils she found in the river simulation during a lesson Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, outside Big Thompson Elementary School. Fossils were placed in the river simulation to show the age and life along the river. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

A cyclist rides east on the newly constructed Boyd Lake trail project on Fifth Street near Boyd Lake Avenue on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 in Loveland. The project is a temporary trail and city officials say incoming development will be required to construct a permanent trail. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Pete Tomassi, right, checks out the octagonal floor that was center stage in Loveland's first opera house as Larry Melton makes his way up the stairs during a tour Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, of the newly renovated historic Opera House building. When it was built in 1884, the two-story building at the southwest corner of Cleveland Avenue and East Fourth Street was called the A&B Building after its builders, Loveland businessmen Edwin S. Allen and Frank G. Bartholf. More recently, it was known as the Arcadia Hotel. Last year, Masonville resident Howard Perko bought the dilapidated building and began a major renovation. On Tuesday, Perko and the business tenants of the building celebrated an official ribbon-cutting.
(Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Rebecca Godin, front left, Meredith Welty and Morgan Riedl use resistance bands affixed to surfset boards during a work led by Kim Trionfera, background, at Anytime Fitness in Loveland on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Meredith Welty, front left, and Morgan Riedl, front right, work out in a Surfset class led by Kim Trionfera, background, at Anytime Fitness in Loveland on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Meredith Welty, front left, and Morgan Riedl, front right do crunches on modified surf boards in a Surfset class led by Kim Trionfera, background, at Anytime Fitness in Loveland on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Kim Trionfera, fitness instructor, demonstrates how to use resistance cords while balanced on a Surfset board during a class at Anytime Fitness in Loveland on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Meredith Welty, left, Morgan Riedl and Rebecca Godin wok out in a Surfset class led by Kim Trionfera, right at Anytime Finess in Loveland on Thursday, Oct.15, 2015. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland Fire Rescue Authority firefighters and a tow truck driver work to separate two vehicles after an accident Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at the intersection of First Street and Cleveland Avenue in downtown Loveland. The driver of the sedan, a pregnant woman in labor, was taken to Medical Center of the Rockies. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Teams of election judges remove ballots from secrecy sleeves at the Larimer County ballot processing center Friday, Oct. 23, 2015, before the Nov. 3 Election Day deadline. The ballots are then run through a counting machine. All volunteers work in mixed groups of Democrats and Republicans. (Photo by Jessica Benes)

Faith Tjardes, organ player, looks up from flipping through pages of song book at the Timberlane Farm Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 in Loveland. Celebrating the euphonious history of the Loveland area, the museum is hosting a Musicale Evening on Thursday, Nov. 5. Tjardes, playing on a late nineteenth century Mason & Hamilton owned by the museum, will provide the sound track to the evening. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Carol Kates, left, and Deanna Ball, right, pull secrecy sleeves out of the election envelopes Friday, Oct. 23, 2015, at the ballot processing center for Larimer County in Fort Collins. Larimer County is using these new envelope opening machines for the first time. (Photo Jessica Benes/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Faith Tjardes plays Ode to Joy, by Friedrich Schiller at the Timberlane Farm Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 in Loveland. The evening will be a throwback to times when after long work days, friends and families would get together to listen to live music and relax. (Photo by Trevor L. Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Jake Marto (25), left, defenseman for the Colorado Eagles, fights for control over the puck with Daniel Baczuk (25), forward for Rapid City, in the first period on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 in Loveland. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Chris Ciotti (8), left, forward for the Rapid City Rush, gets checked against the glass by Jordan Kwas (37), forward for the Colorado Eagles, in the first period on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 in Loveland. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Danny Battochio (30), top left, goalie for Rapid City, misses a shot from Collin Bowman (10), not pictured, defenseman for the Colorado Eagles, at seven minutes in the second period on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 in Loveland. (Photo by Trevor L Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Jasmine Hana (6), outside hitter for Colorado State, spikes the ball over San Diego State's Emma Fuzie (12) and Kaja Sandberg during the second set on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 in Fort Collins. Colorado State won the match in three sets. (Photo by Trevor L. Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Kelly Pace, regional HR director for the Clear View Behvaioral Health, far left, leads a tour of the new psychiatric hospital in Johnstown after a ribbon cutting. One of the many safety precautions taken while designing and building the hospital is shatter proof windows.(Photo by Jenny Spakrs/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Alex Reid (5), outside hitter for Colorado State, does a dig against San Diego State on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 in Fort Collins. (Photo by Trevor L. Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Emergency crews respond to a single car rollover accident Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, on the 6400 block of N. Garfield Avenue in Loveland. The driver of the van was taken to Medical Center of the Rockies where he died. (Photo by Dana Rieck/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Alexandra Poletto (14), middle blocker for Colorado State, serves the ball in the second game against San Diego State on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 in Fort Collins. Colorado State won the match in three games, (Photo by Trevor L. Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Dressed as Ursula the octopus from The Little Mermaid, Annette Treece, serves lunch to students Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Walt Clark Middle School. For more than a decade the lunch staff at the school has decorated the kitchen and dressed in costumes to match. This year's theme was under the sea, complete with sea creatures, decorations and squid dogs and crabby patty sandwhiches. It took about three weeks to make the decorations and about six hours to decorate the kitchen. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

The lunch offerings included coral chunks, squid dogs and crabby pattys on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Walt Clark Middle School to go with the under the sea theme created by the lunch staff for Halloween. Michelle Atwood, dressed as Ariel from The Little Mermaid, prepares to serve lunch. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Crabby Patty sandwiches were part of the lunch menu Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Walt Clark Middle School as part of the under the sea theme the lunch crew created for Halloween. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Walt Clark Middle School staff pose for snapshots taken by other staff members in their under the sea Little Mermaid costumes Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Walt Clark Middle School. Clockwise from center are Annette Treece, Kathy Carpenter, Paul Kirkland, Tanner Walker and Joe Vodjansky. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Walt Clark Middle School students cheer for the lunch staff dressed in under the sea themed costumes and the office staff dressed in Mario Bros. costumes Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. From left are Paityn Saldona, 12, Gloria Aste, 12, and Kaitlyn Wood, 12. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Loveland-based Decibullz on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 for the manufacture of its new custom-moldable wireless earbuds. (Photo special to the Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Alvin Warnock, bus driver, greets Kyle Anderson as he gets on the southbound Flex bus at the Orchard Shopping Center on 29th Street and Garfield Avenue on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 in Loveland. The Flex bus will be expanding service from Fort Collins to Boulder with stops in Loveland in January 2016. (Photo by Trevor L. Davis/Loveland Reporter-Herald)